Practice Partition (3.3.1) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Question 1 Easy

What are the two main phases of MapReduce?

💡 Hint: Think about how data is processed and summarized.

Question 2 Easy

What does Kafka primarily facilitate?

💡 Hint: Consider the role of messaging systems in data flow.

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Question 1

What is the main function of the MapReduce framework?

Data Preservation
Batch Processing
Real-time Streaming

💡 Hint: Think about what MapReduce has been commonly used for.

Question 2

True or False: Apache Spark primarily uses disk-based processing.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider the key advantages Spark provides over MapReduce.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Construct a MapReduce program outline for processing user activity logs to identify the top 10 most common actions on a web page daily.

💡 Hint: Think about how you can leverage counting and sorting to find the most common actions.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how you could integrate Kafka with Spark to analyze social media feeds in real-time. Outline the data flow.

💡 Hint: Identify the role of Kafka in capturing data and Spark in processing.

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